January 30, 2022

Throughout our lives, God accompanies us. In a very special way, God is close to those who suffer and are marginalized. Pope Francis reminds us that “God’s heart has a special place for the poor, so much so that he himself ‘became poor’ (2 Corinthians 8:9). The entire history of our redemption is marked by the presence of the poor” (Evangelii Gaudium, no. 197).

Act now to help poor families through the enhanced Child Tax Credit and to ask Congress to advance climate investment policies, since climate change disproportionately affects the poor.
 

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Pope Francis among children experienceing poverty, Phillipines on January 17, 2015.

The first world Day of the Poor was observed on June 13, 2017